Easter is upon us. I have to admit that I love this season and its traditions. However, more important than new clothes, delicious feasts, and candied eggs, is the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Resurrection is about new life, a second chance.
Have you ever experienced a time in your marriage where love seemed dead or close to dying? Well, there’s nothing like an Easter miracle to resurrect your dying marriage.
Easter Miracle: 3 Ways to Resurrect Your Dying Marriage
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Many people consider Resurrection (Easter) Sunday to be the holiest day of the Christian year. It is the day that believers in Jesus Christ celebrate their risen Lord and Savior. But, I venture to say, we shouldn’t think about resurrection one day out of the year. What about the other 364 days? What about the areas we need to resurrect in order to truly live the life God intended
When your marriage is going through difficulty, it can be hard to believe there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. But the resurrection experience of Jesus gives me hope, and maybe even you too, that a similar type of resurrection is possible in our daily living.
By no means am I comparing the risen Savior to a loveless marriage. What I am saying is there is hope! Resurrection, or new life, is possible for you.
Consider what resurrection means for your daily life.
Not only do I believe in a resurrected marriage, I’ve experienced it. After marrying young and struggling to find ourselves, my husband and I went through a really rough period: seemingly dead love, dead intimacy, and dead dreams.
If our marriage was going to live and not die, we had to make some tough decisions. We had to believe in and work toward a resurrection.
Engage in serious soul-searching and focused prayer.
Are carrying around some dead stuff in your life? Dead self-esteem. Dead dreams. Your hopes are dead. Your faith is dead. Dead purpose. Dead friendships. Resurrection is possible for you.
You can start experiencing new life in those areas through heartfelt prayer. If you and your spouse are both struggling to keep the relationship alive, then your relationship is in need of a miracle.
Simply put, Dead + Dead = Dead. Your relationship miracle won’t happen without specific and focused prayer.
Discuss the Resurrection Story with your spouse and form a plan.
For us, it was important that we went to counseling. There, we bared our souls. We spoke the truth. We cried and screamed and prayed and talked until the spirit of death fled our home.
Looking back, we could blame it on age, but that wouldn’t do any good. From what I understand, couples who have been married 20+ years still go through resurrection phases. At some point, your marriage will need new life. It’s not anything to fear; it’s something to look forward to.
Since our marital resurrection, we have more togetherness, more joy, more understanding, and more intimacy. If it had not been for a near-death experience, we wouldn’t be walking in our purpose together as a couple now.
If you celebrate Resurrection Sunday as a part of the Christian faith, I encourage you to consider what resurrection means in the context of your daily life.
Do some serious soul-searching and focused prayer about the dead areas in your life. Sit down and discuss the Resurrection Story with your spouse, and then make a game plan.
Maybe it’s the dreams you shared as newlyweds. Perhaps it’s kissing and holding each other while you fall asleep. Maybe it’s family dinner time and heartfelt communication.
There’s nothing too dead for God. Resurrection is possible to those who believe and put their faith into action. Regardless of the challenge, your relationship can get its miracle resurrection starting this Easter.
BMWK, are you ready to experience a miracle in your marriage during this season?
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Editor’s Note – This post was originally published on March 29, 2018, and has been updated for quality and relevancy.
Thanks so much for this information my husband and I have had bad things to happen to us in our marriage until I almost gave up on him, but no on God! He said that he was saved, but treated me like crap one day The Lord said to me start praying for him… long story short, I began to pray & The Lord started to work not right away but Jesus Christ, began to work it was not on my terms; but strictly His, been married for 7years and legally married for 4 years broke my heart. All from lies, deceit, cheating, misleading, it’s mine too, I had my mother’s name on my stuff and that’s the way the cookie crumbles… & I said Jesus Christ help me I don’t think that this man is saved! I could go on & on but it would take me a year to tell this story, we go counseling’ from saved family members, Pastor’s we knew & some we didn’t know and our marriage was still dead… until I was just spiritually drained but I can say from praying & fasting God knows I’m so blessed and feel much much better and we are still together but he’s slowly coming around but before I was being treated like crap, I’m asking you all to keep me & my husband in your prayers, it feels like I’m all alone and pulling a loaded wagon when there hasn’t been communication in 7 long years so I’m trying to stay focused on Jesus Christ, staying in the word and just keep praying for my husband this article I read about a dying marriage needed to be resurrected shedded a lot of light on my heart it gave me some more hope in our marriage, I’ll just keep on praying and maybe he’ll see the light as well and accept our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ into his life and our marriage will flourish but until then, it’s like we’re up but back down we don’t go anywhere together without a major problem so I go by myself it’s only the two of us in our home together we have 7 children all are grown except one but she stays with her mother my three are grown… God bless this ministry keep up the good work you please pray for me and I’ll pray for you all
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